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Dr. Apiwan Nuangpolmak delivered a talk on “Multilevel tasks for multilevel students” based on her PhD dissertation. She started by addressing problems of having multilevel students who lack motivation and language, as well as learning skills in a classroom. She suggested using 3 writing tasks which are divided into three levels of task difficulty: A (supported writing), B (Guided writing), and C (Free writing). These tasks provide choices which help promote learning autonomy. She found that the way students chose tasks were not only related to their proficiency but also their confidence and learning style. Her model can be used in developing learning materials that are suitable for a classroom consisting of multilevel students. |
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On August 9, 2011
"On August 9, 2011, Assistant Professor Rachaneerojana Kulthamrong presented a talk titled 'Translation Studies: Their Past, Our Present" in which she shared what she has learned from a 'workshop-cum-training' on translation and interpreting research at Hong Kong Baptist University. She described trends, issues, and methodologies widely used in recent translation studies. She also discussed the topics and areas of investigation presented by guest translation lecturers/researchers, which included
- Translation as Re-contextualization and a Third Space Phenomenon
- Ethics in Translator and Interpreter Training
- Film Adaptation as Translation
- Researching Community Interpreting
- Dynamic Equivalence Revisited
- Researching Intersexuality: cases from the Chinese museums sector
Twenty-four participants were in attendance." |
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On July 28, 2011
CULI Research Department organised a workshop on how to use Google Docs for managing documents, presentations, and surveys, which was conducted by Ajarn Sakol Suethanapornkul. Participants had an opportunity to have a hands-on experience using the program in constructing a self-designed questionnaire, and presenting results. About 20 participants attended the session. |
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On July 14, 2011
Dr. Worawanna Petchkij talks about her experience attending a workshop on "Foreign Language Vocabulary Teaching and Research" led by Professor Paul Nation and Professor Liang Maocheng The workshop, which was organised at the National Research Center for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University during June 11-12, 2011, addressed the issues of vocabulary instruction and testing as well as research in this area. In her talk, Dr Worawanna also mentioned the possibility of establishing research collaboration with Chinese teachers/researchers on a number of topics of similar interests. Ten participants were in attendance. |
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On July 12, 2011
CULI Research Department featured a special one-day session on Journal Search and Reference Organizing conducted by two CULI teaching staff members. In the morning, Ajarn Sakol Suethanapornkul demonstrated how to get an easy access to CU References database whereby researchers could get a hold of online journals in the fields of language teaching and learning and applied linguistics. In the afternoon session Ajarn Patharaorn Patharakorn showed the participants how to download the EndNote program via the Center of Academic Resources (CU) Website and use it to organize references, which would help facilitate research information management and research writing. About 10 participants were in attendance. |
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February 4, 2011
Ajarn Sakol Suethanapornkul gave a presentation on Frequency, Representativeness, and Meaning in an L2 Corpus. At the start of his talk, he introduced the concept of statistical language learning in which statistical properties of language or probabilistic cues in input play a significant role in language processing. Then Ajarn Sakol demonstrated how he analysed L2 corpus for formulaic sequences, taking account of two important factors, i.e. representativeness and meaning. In this study, he found the sequences produced by the learners were not quite sophisticated, compared to those used in the target academic genre. Twelve participants attended the session. |
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January 28, 2011
On January 28, 2011, Associate Professor Dr. Wirote Aroonmanakun from Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University delivered a talk on “Language Corpus for Research and Language Teaching.” He started by giving a brief overview on the use and types of corpora. Then, he demonstrated how software may be applied to the corpora for different teaching/learning purposes, and also described how a corpus may be created. Before ending his talk, he provided the audience with some researchable topics and a list of previous research studies done in this area. There were 18 participants in attendance. |
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January 10, 2011
CULI Research Department organized a workshop entitled “Analysis of English for Different Professions: A Genre-based Approach” led by Associate Professor Dr. Budsaba Kanoksilapatham, from English Department, Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University. In the morning session, Dr. Budsaba presented a general overview of Swales’ analytical framework of doing genre analysis, and then had the participants try their hands on analyzing research abstracts and introductions of research articles. In the afternoon session, our distinguished speaker covered the issues of representativeness, authenticity, corpus compilation and inter-coder reliability. 27 participants attended this workshop. |
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